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Champagne Cupcakes

Let’s celebrate every occasion with these Champagne Cupcakes! Packed with bold flavor with the addition of a sweet strawberry filling. Perfect for those special moments or just celebrating your week.

Who’s excited for Valentines day??? I normally am pretty neutral, since there are 364 other days in in the year that my hubby shows me he cares, but this year I’m getting sucked into the pretty reds, chocolate, and champagnes. Around New Years I decided that champagne cupcakes would be a fun (and boozy) way for me to show my love that I care. Or more that I care about myself since he is not into champagne! Eh. At least I tried, right?!

Now it’s time for the good stuff. These would have been great all on their own, but I decided to fill my cupcakes with a simple strawberry sauce. I added a bit of champagne, but it really wasn’t necessary. That sauce is delicious all on it’s own (try it on top of my cinnamon or chocolate waffles. You won’t be disappointed!).

In case you missed it, you can see a full tutorial onhow to fill a cupcakein yesterday’s post! The strawberry filling really adds a punch of fruity flavor to the soft and spongy cake. Don’t skip this part. It also helps to break up the champagne flavor and adds a nice sweetness to the center.

And finally, I topped the cakes with a champagne buttercream! So easy to make it’ll make your head spin. Pipe it on and you are ready to PAR-TAY!

I’m not kidding when I say they are champagne flavor packed. You can taste it from the cake to the frosting. Top them with a candied strawberry and you’ve got a very elegant and slightly romantic Valentines day treat!

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Does this frosting pipe well? I wanted to make ruffles with it. Also how many cupcakes does this recipe make? Thank you! Cant wait to try them…. OOOH and do you think the strawberry sauce would mix well with lemonade to make strawberry lemonade?

so, I made the champagne cupcakes which are very good. The champagne butter cream frosting is rather odd for lack of another word. It is the most weirdest tasting frosting I have ever tasted, very little frosting is too much. Will make the cake again but not the frosting. The fun part was drinking the champagne while I was cooking:)

So I was so excited about these and especially the icing. Just spent the last two hours trying to fix the champagne icing to no avail. After research I noticed the amount of buttered called for is listed wrong at 1 cup softened. It should be 1/3 cup and now I have no icing, no time, and because it’s Christmas eve no way to fix these in time for christmas. Super dissapointed.

Jessica,
I made these for a shower and used a whole strawberry instead of the sauce and they were amazing!!!! Everyone raved about them for months!! Do you think that it is possible to get the same great taste in a cake and do you think that I could spread the strawberry sauce across the layers?
Thank you!!